Letter from Isaac Hart to Isaac Leeser;October 15, 1858
- Title
- Letter from Isaac Hart to Isaac Leeser;October 15, 1858
- Author
- Isaac Hart
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- 15 October 1858
- Format
- Letter. 3 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
- Letter
- Type
- Letter
- Language(s)
- English
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3n873k3m/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3n873k3m
- Physical Characteristics
- Lined Paper
- Manuscript
- content
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Norleans Oct 15th 1858
Revd Isaac Leeser
Dear Sir
Send your Occident to Mess D Moore & Co New Orleans
I regret to tell you the epedemic still continues & our people are still falling victims to the fell Destroyer
assistance is now coming in which will so far to render aid to our various Benevolent Societies N York has sent to the Genl ? Hebrew Benevolent Society.
L B Can Eq President
797.22
Recd through Dr J A Cohen
by subscription of a few Israelites
at Harrisonburg La
117.00
recd from L Klossman &
others from Biloxi Miss
117.00
Recd from ? Miss
50.00
“ Clinton La
75.00
$1156.22
Turn over
1156.22
also recd from N York for the
Widow & Orphans Home
250.00
Recd from Dr Liliethenal
& a number of other kind
Hearted Israelites from
Cincinnati & which
I also learn goes to the home
400.00
Recd from St Louis JOBB
for General Distribution
150.00
Total Recd
$1956 22
This assistance will do much good but its like a drop of water on the sea the Hebrew Benevolent alone has paid out & incurred an expense allready of from 3 to $5000 The Ladies Heb Ben association has been compelled to Borrow $200 in Interest & the Home are in Debt very largely with a large number daily here admitted to be fed clothed & educated yet with all this I feel confident we have sympathy seeing Hearts among you who if even late will not be behind their Brethren in other cities but
will yet send their Mite
Excuse scrawl
In Haste yours Truly
Isaac Hart
Mr M Goldsmith has just lost one of his children Annie aged 5 years and I fear ere 24 Hours he will lose his only son the Doctors fear the worst
I never knew so much sickness in those Born here - Identifier
- LSDCBx2FF5_29
- Date
- 1858-10-15
Part of Letter from Isaac Hart to Isaac Leeser;October 15, 1858
Isaac Hart, “Letter from Isaac Hart to Isaac Leeser;October 15, 1858”, 1858-10-15, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/65416